Note 925 — Chapter VII

Palfrey, iv. 275, quotes Sunderland’s instructions to Dudley from the British Colonial Papers. The proclamation which the British agents issued on their arrival, with Dudley’s approval, is in the Mass. Archives. Vetch had as early as 1701 been engaged in traffic up the St. Lawrence. Cf. Journal of the voyage of the sloop Mary from Quebec, 1701, with introduction and notes by E. B. O’Callaghan, Albany, 1866. Through this and other adventures he had acquired a knowledge of the river; and in pursuance of such traffic he had gained some enmity, and had at one time been fined £200 for trading with the French. It was in 1706 that William Rouse, Samuel Vetch, John Borland, and others were arrested on this charge. (Mass. Hist. Coll., xviii. 240.)